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I warned the Editor it would happen. You can say anything you like about teenagers, youths, and young adults and you just won’t get a response. Mind you that’s probably because most of them can’t read. However, if you have the temerity, as I did last month, to suggest the winter fuel payment be directed to young families, the massed ranks of wrinklies are mobilised against you. I am reliably informed that for miles around the Herald offices, pensioners could be seen in a huge fleet of Rover 45s armed with travel rugs, Thermos flasks, and a membership card for Botany Bay. Please old people get this into your heads. You are not, as a section of society, immune from any criticism or reform. There are lots of you out there who are intolerant, rude, bad-mannered, and offensive, the very traits you label the younger generation with on a regular basis. Yes you should be respected but not unconditionally. Having said that, I need to spring to the defence of older drivers. In recent days a young Mum and her toddler were tragically killed by a car that mounted the pavement and mowed them down. The driver was an 89 year-old who was apparently taken ill at
the wheel hence feeding calls to ban
people of that age from the roads. That is patently ridiculous. There is just as much chance of somebody in their fifties or sixties suffering an attack of ill-health whilst driving. And who’s to say the young generation should be exempt? Indeed, as if to prove my point, two men in their thirties also died this week after the car they were travelling in collided with a lamppost. Had that been in a town centre at rush-hour, there would have been a very good chance of innocent pedestrians being involved. Sadly we just have to accept sometimes that accidents happen. Often they are tragic. And very often they are nobody’s fault. Why oh why as a society must we seek to apportion blame at every opportunity? Meanwhile in the Git household we are approaching one of those crazy fortnights where there appears to be a birthday or anniversary every day. Last Sunday we dutifully purchased the first batch of cards. Which came to eleven bloody quid! Let’s face it greetings cards are the biggest rip-off known to man. I estimate each one costs around ten pence to produce. And yet you see some going for four or five quid. Now at Christmas some of my work colleagues declared they would not be sending cards but would be using the money instead as a charity donation. Very laudable that is of course. But when it comes to Valentines Day, you simply cannot afford to risk the ire of your loved one. Can you imagine “But love it was three pound fifty and I’m not spending that much on you!” Hardly the epitome of romance. No, they have us chaps over a barrel and I hate to be made to feel like that. Meanwhile some friends of ours are looking to consolidate some debt and reduce their outgoings. They applied for a credit card with a very low interest rate on balance transfers. They were refused on the grounds they had only a “fair” credit rating. They had never missed a payment or even been late. In other words, the companies that bent over backwards to lend them money in the good times, now effectively blacklist the couple for borrowing from them! It gets better. As a result of this less than perfect rating, they cannot access lower interest loans. However they can borrow the same sum but at much less attractive rates hence making the repayments higher. So in other words, they cannot be trusted to pay a small amount, but will be trusted to pay back loads more. Absolutely mad. Absolutely outrageous. These banks need to remember the utter mess they were in only months ago when the taxpayer involuntarily bailed them out. Now the dust has settled they begin to exploit us again to post huge profits and also to pay their executives huge bonuses for simply doing their job. This patently cannot be right. All over Lancashire these institutions are closing local branches, the last refuge of those without private transport. They have as one completely forgotten the basic precepts of public and customer service. I urge you all to withdraw everything, invest in a good burglar alarm, and stick the whole bloody lot under your mattresses. Parasites. And they all make me seethe.
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